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Exa pricing and alternatives: people search API, POST /v0/websets

Exa's sitellms.txtBest cached people search API in 2026
31% complete: 4 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$49 monthly, Starter, POST /v0/websetsThe cheapest of the 225 priced plans is StartupHub.ai, $500 yearly, at $0.0083 per 1,000.
Plan: Starter one of Exa's 3 plans
Call: POST /v0/websets one of Exa's 2 calls
API: People search API one of Exa's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. Exa doesn't say how fresh a search's results are.
  • 4 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Education, Location, Photo.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $49 for 8,000 credits.
  • One call. You send search.query to POST /v0/websets. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Who can get it: anyone not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. restricted-party list. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Exa: people search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans billed monthly. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields.

This planExa, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v0/websetsSignalHire, $49 monthly, Emails & PhonesBetterContact, $15 monthlyLeadscart, $29 monthlyLoneScale, $200 monthly, Starter, POST /trigger/contact-sourcing
Completeness31%31%23%15%15%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$49$49$15$29$200
Freshnessnot publishednot publishednot publishedlivenot published
Who can get itanyone not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. restricted-party listanyone acting in a business capacityany legal entity or natural person acting in the course of their professional activitiesanyone 18 or older using it for business, an account for one businessany natural or legal person, a natural person uses it for their professional activity, and LoneScale's moderation team validates the account

People search API plans

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-21.

  1. exa-public.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Exa%20-%20Online%20Master%20Subscription%20Agreement%20%28v2.2026-09-17%29.pdf
  2. exa.ai/blog/company-search-benchmarks
  3. exa.ai/blog/people-search-benchmark
  4. exa.ai/docs/admin/billing
  5. exa.ai/docs/admin/faqs
  6. exa.ai/docs/admin/pricing
  7. exa.ai/docs/changelog
  8. exa.ai/docs/llms.txt
  9. exa.ai/docs/search/data/companies-people
  10. exa.ai/docs/search/data/news
  11. exa.ai/docs/search/data/overview
  12. exa.ai/docs/websets/api/teams/get-team-info.md
  13. exa.ai/docs/websets/api/websets/create-a-webset.md
  14. exa.ai/docs/websets/api/websets/items/list-all-items-for-a-webset.md
  15. exa.ai/docs/websets/api/websets/searches/create-a-search.md
  16. exa.ai/docs/websets/quickstart.md
  17. exa.ai/llms.txt
  18. exa.ai/msa
  19. exa.ai/pricing
  20. exa.ai/terms-of-service
  21. exa.ai/websets
  22. websets.exa.ai/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience
  • Education
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
Billingmonthly
$ a month$49
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Create a search · Create an enrichment · Create an import · Preview a webset
In their words
Their pitchDescribe your ICP and get a perfect list of matches
Data
Keep dataself-serve: nothing copied or stored past a browser's temporary display cache, unless its terms or Exa in writing allow more, Enterprise, under its Master Subscription Agreement: no limit, the output is yours
Use dataself-serve: as its documentation allows, the output for your own internal business purposes, nothing resold or sublicensed, no competing product, Enterprise: also through your own products to your end users, no competing product, no benchmarks shared
Plan
Pay$49
You get8,000 credits a month
Rate limit
Per second20
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendsearch.query. Optional: search.entity (type "person"), search.count, search.criteria, search.maxPeoplePerCompany, search.recall, search.exclude, search.scope, title, import, enrichments, exclude, externalId, metadata
MethodPOST
Path/v0/websets
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. restricted-party list
The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold

item ID, item source, item source ID, item source entity ID, item scope ID, webset ID, entity type, URL, relevance description, full name, location, current position, current company, current company location, picture URL, job history title, job history location, job history start date, job history end date, job history company ID, job history company, job history company LinkedIn URL, education degree, education start date, education end date, education school ID, education school, education school LinkedIn URL, evaluation criterion, evaluation reasoning, evaluation satisfied, evaluation references, enrichment ID, enrichment status, enrichment format, enrichment result, enrichment reasoning, enrichment references, item created at, item updated at

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